Getting into business: Mentoring

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

A mentor can take many different forms but ultimately they’re there to give you advice, put you in touch with contacts they have and support you, whether you’re setting up a new business or looking to make the next step in your career.

We head to Sweden to speak to Caxton Njuki, a professional sports and health coach who is a mentor to Jessika Sillanpää. He supported her for a year as she set up her business Jessikastory. They give us an insight into their mentoring relationship and how the process allowed Jessika to work on her business full time.

Abhishek Nagaraj, an expert in business mentoring at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkley. He discusses the different forms of mentoring and the economic benefits if you have a really good mentor.

Producer/presenter: Hannah Mullane

(Image: Caxton Njuki and Jessika Sillanpää Credit: Caxton Njuki)

Transcript

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0:00.0	When you meet someone online, can you trust they are who they say they are?
0:04.7	I keep thinking so much about you.
0:07.1	She's so stunning.
0:08.3	It's all well planned.
0:10.7	Love Janessa is the True Crime podcast from the BBC World Service and CBC podcasts,
0:16.8	exploring the world of online romance scams.
0:19.7	And it's available now.
0:21.2	Find it wherever you found this podcast.
0:25.4	Hello and welcome to Business Daily.
0:28.6	Kicking off today's episode with a question for you.
0:32.0	Do you think you'd benefit from a mentor?
0:42.7	Yeah. you'd benefit from a mentor. Maybe like me, you work for a big company and you have colleagues a bit more
0:47.6	senior than you that you can go to for advice on a project or get some tips ahead of
0:52.6	that next job interview. Or maybe you've started a business
0:56.1	yourself and needed some advice from someone who's already doing it. Mentoring takes on many
1:01.7	different forms all over the world. And today's episode, the latest in our getting into business
1:06.8	series is all about that.
1:17.5	Have you ever considered the economic impact of having a mentor?
1:19.0	I hadn't either.
1:20.7	Turns out it's pretty big.
1:22.4	Given the right kind of mentorship,
1:27.6	the direct economic benefits to the firms being mentored,
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